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title: But he made the sign of the cross and bid them begone in God’s name,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he made the sign of the cross and bid them begone in God’s name, and held his wife as if it was iron his arms were made of. Who acts: court, sign, God. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 127

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But he made the sign of the cross and bid them begone in God’s name, and held his wife as if it was iron his arms were made of.

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**Who acts:** court, sign, God · **What happens:** make, bid, begone, hold, be, sign · **To what, where:** sign, arms, name, wife, cross

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, sign, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:6:127
# text = But he made the sign of the cross and bid them begone in God’s name, and held his wife as if it was iron his arms were made of.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	begone	begone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | court | the sign of the cross |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product |
| 2 | **bid** | infinitive | court *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begone** | infinitive | court *not said here* |  |  | God's name |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | past | court *not said here* | court's wife |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | sign |  |  |  |  | iron *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past · passive |  | court's arms |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **sign** |  |  | the cross |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **name** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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